We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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